Always back the horse named self-interest, son. It'll be the only one trying
Suppose you said this world we live in today has an unrecognisable skew to it, utterly foreign from what we knew even a short five years ago. In that case, you could be talking about politics, extreme climate events, violence, crime, inflation, cost of living, education, All Black rugby, work prospects or the potential for […]
Robert and John have been training together in very much an unofficial partnership in recent years as the stable has northern and southern bases, with Robert often spending time in Auckland. But the time has come to make the partnership official but with John also the country’s second leading driver it will be Jenna’s name […]
About seven months ago we wrote a story about a horse called Mark Dunnett, who couldn’t a yard when it was in the barn of Courage Under Fire’s trainer B. Negus, but turned into Batman when transferred to the Woodend Beach stables of Lurch Dunn. In his first six runs for Lurch the 26 starts […]
Bruce Negus is a bloke who can train pacers a bit. Do you remember that rather handy horse called Courage Under Fire? It was his. Negus is no mug is what I am saying. Bruce looked like a mug at Westport yesterday though, that’s for sure. He once had this horse called Mark Dunnett you […]
Until a fortnight ago the Kiwi pacer Cab Calloway had raced 55 times for 3 different trainers and had won just twice. On both occasions it had dream runs against rather ordinary opponents The first came at Winton about 3 years ago in a team drive (his team) where the stablemate led and he sat […]
Patience is a virtue. Copy That’s owner Merv Butterworth and his trainer Ray Green have plenty of it. The Champ resumed in a workout – our version of a trial – at Pukekohe Raceway this afternoon, against three top class horses. BD Joe is a Group 1 winner, OId Town Road is a rising star […]
Harness Racing New Zealand (HRNZ) has backed down on it’s plan to make this year’s NZ Cup and Dominion Handicap handicap stand starts this year. So they should too. But just to illustrate the problems with conflict of interest on the board, I wonder how HRNZ Directors Colin Hair and Robert Dunn – the owner […]
The word is that Mark Purdon had to go home early from his usual winter sojourn in Queensland, and that Natalie Rasmussen’s friend Olivia Thornley came over to replace him. We hope that Livvie didn’t hang around too much with Nat’s great mate Scott Steele. The word is that you would never want to accept […]
This is the public stand at Alexandra Park, photo taken today. It’s about to be knocked down and turned into apartments, developed by an Aussie mob. The money received by the Auckland Trotting Club will hardly be enough to put a dent in the $200 million debt it owes to the banks. I sat it […]
Multiple Inter Dominion winner Natalie Rasmussen is a volunteer at All Stars Stables now is she? Really? I find that very hard to believe. Just as I find her close friendship with the alleged rapist and stood down Albion Park CEO Scott Steele repulsive. Perhaps she would like to explain that one too.
